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The Maelor is an area of Wales, lying in the county borough of Wrexham. It originated as a commote of the Kingdom of Powys, focused on Bangor-Is-y-Coed.

The Maelor was first divided from the rest of Wales by the construction of Offa's Dyke in the eighth century, but was reclaimed by Wales during the reign of Stephen of England. In around 1202, the Maelor was first divided into two halves, separated by the River Dee, when it was split between two Welsh lords.

In 1282 - 1283, Edward I of England conquered the area east of the River Dee, which became known as the English Maelor (Welsh: Maelor Saesneg). The western area remained Welsh and became the Welsh Maelor (Welsh: Maelor Gymraeg).

In 1397, under Richard II of England, the English Maelor was merged with the County Palatine of Chester to form the Principality of Chester. With the creation of the Kingdom of England and Wales in 1536, the county of Denbighshire was created, containing the Welsh Maelor, while the English Maelor became an outlier of Flintshire, administered from Overton. The English Maelor was also known as Flintshire Detached, and sometimes simply as the Maelor.

In 1974, both halves of the Maelor became part of the Wrexham Maelor district, which in 1996 became part of the county borough of Wrexham.

Jaja, het was echt mijn dagje niet vandaag. Het was de eerste dag van mijn stage bij Siemens, en ik heb nog geen enkele dag gehad met zovele malen pech na elkaar...

Het begon al 's ochtends vroeg. Opstaan om 6u is echt mijn ding niet. Als ik dan ook nog eens nietsvermoedend onder de douche ga staan en merk dat we gedurende drie dagen geen warm water hebben, is de dag al goed gestart. XX(

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Donna Pescow (born March 24, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress.

She is best known for her role as Annette in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, and later starring on her own television series, Angie, for two seasons from 1979 to 1980. Her most groundbreaking role has been Dr. Lynn Carson on the soap opera All My Children, which she portrayed from 1982 to 1983. Her character was the first lesbian on the daytime serials.

She played Donna, the mother of Evie, in the children's comedy show Out of This World.

From 2000 to 2003, she played the mother, Eileen Stevens, on Even Stevens, a sitcom that aired on The Disney Channel.

Everywhere you try something that doesn't work, always make sure you're using the latest version available! They say this in every manual, but you don't know how many people are violating this rule. But of course, one can say that the version that's delivered with your distribution isn't the latest, but that can't be a problem.

Why am I telling this? Seems logical. OK, it's logical, but most people sometimes forget it. And I'm also telling this again because people who are using (K)UBUNTU and having problems with their wireless networking, can find a clue in this. When you follow the (nice explained!) steps in the Ubuntu Wiki about installing ndiswrapper, you just use the version delivered with that version of your distro. When I did this yesterday at the notebook of a friend, seems I installed version 0.2rc2 wich is very old. Off course I ran into trouble.

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Since yesterday, exams are finally done! Done! Finally!

Yeah, the last one, speech processing. It was quite hard, harder than I thought, but I was ready with studying, execpt a few pages that were to hard, I thougt. But at the exam, also those pages were asked! Indeed, it was very difficult. When I recieved the questions I thought "oh, shit". But after all, I think I have answered enough to pass. Let's hope.

Also yesterday (ok, two days ago, but I'm still awake so I say yesterday :-)), my girlfriend had her thesis presentation. It'll also be OK, she told. The jury said it was OK, very good, and she answered most questions. With that last one, a big part of her life ends. University career as student is done. She wants to go for a PhD next year, so she won't leave university and our home ;-)

I also bought her a little present. Something because she closes a period and also because I won't see her much while I'm doing my internship at Siemens. We had some drink and a nice evening with some friends, all OK :-)